Computers can be better than humans in very specialised tasks, such as chess and Go, but it’s much more difficult to learn how to learn new tasks and to think about intentions and goals other than their own, like humans do. Enter our EU R & D Project METALOGUE .

Niels briefly shows an example interaction with our META Avatar negotiating the terms of a smoking ban and actually “thinking about the (human) opponent”, a crucial human negotiation and life skill. You can see META from minute 12 onwards but the whole talk is really interesting to watch, so don’t skip to it!